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Buddy DeFranco: I heard Tommy Dorsey's band at the Earle Theater in Philadelphia.
My brother and I used to go to the theater and we'd stay sometimes on a Saturday
we'd stay forfive shows, all day -- it was just a couple of dollars or a dollar
or something like that.

NEA Jazz Master Buddy DeFranco recalls one of his most memorable musical
experiences from childhood...

Buddy DeFranco: It was the Tommy Dorsey Band and he featured a clarinet player by the name of Johnny Mince and I was really taken by the way Johnny Mince played his solos. And it kind of made me decide that that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to play jazz on the clarinet.